User manual ASUS 740DVD

E257 R 740DVD Hardware DVD Daughterboard for the ASUS AGP-V2740 3D Multimedia Accelerator Series USER'S MANUAL R Copyright © 1998 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. All Rights Reserved. No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ("ASUS"). ASUS PROVIDES THIS MANUAL "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. · Intel740 is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. · REALmagic and DVD Station are trademarks of Sigma Designs, Inc. · Sound Blaster 16 is a trademark of Creative Technology Ltd. · Windows 95 and Windows 98 are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. The product name and revision number are both printed on the product itself. Manual revisions are released for each product design represented by the digit before and after the period of the manual revision number. Manual updates are represented by the third digit in the manual revision number. For previous or updated manuals, BIOS, drivers, or product release information, contact ASUS at http:// www.asus.com.tw or through any of the means indicated on the following page. 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Product Name: Manual Revision: Release Date: ASUS 740DVD 1.00 E257 September 1998 2 ASUS 740DVD Contents Communications Regulation Information ...................................................... 4 Federal Communications Commission Statement Canadian Department of Communications Statement 4 4 ASUS Contact Information ............................................................................... 5 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 6 Item Checklist Supported File Formats System Requirements 6 7 7 Installation ......................................................................................................... 8 Hardware Installation ASUS 740DVD Parts ASUS 740DVD Layout Installing Your ASUS 740DVD Software Installation Windows95/98 Contents Scramble System (CSS) Regions Using the DVD Station Starting the DVD Station Standard Buttons Custom Buttons Picture Controls DVD Navigation Buttons DVD Playback Video CD Playback Audio CD Playback Shortcut Keys 8 8 8 9 10 10 11 12 12 14 15 20 21 23 26 27 28 ASUS 740DVD 3 Communications Regulation Information Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: s This device may not cause harmful interference, and s This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with manufacturer's instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: s Re-orient or relocate the receiving antenna. s Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. s Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. s Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. WARNING! The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the graphics card is required to assure compliance with FCC regulations. Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate this equipment. Canadian Department of Communications Statement This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise emissions from digital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications. 4 ASUS 740DVD ASUS Contact Information ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Marketing 150 Li-Te Road Peitou, Taipei, Taiwan 112 +886-2-2894-3447 telephone +886-2-2894-3449 fax info@asus.com.tw Technical Support +886-2-2895-9254 fax +886-2-2896-4667 BBS tsd@asus.com.tw www.asus.com.tw ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL Marketing Technical Support 6737 Mowry Avenue Mowry Business Center, Building 2 Newark, CA 94560, USA +1-510-608-4555 fax info-usa@asus.com.tw +1-510-608-4555 fax +1-510-739-3774 BBS tsd-usa@asus.com.tw www.asus.com ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS ASUS COMPUTER GmbH Marketing Harkort Str. 25 40880 Ratingen, BRD, Germany 49-2102-445011 telephone 49-2102-442066 fax info-ger@asus.com.tw Technical Support 49-2102-499712 hotline 49-2102-448690 BBS tsd-ger@asus.com.tw www.asuscom.de ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM ASUS 740DVD 5 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of an ASUS 740DVD Hardware DVD Daughtercard for the ASUS AGP-V2740 3D Multimedia Accelerator Series. The ASUS 740DVD transforms your computer into a full-function DVD player, and provides you with uncompromising high performance hardware MPEG-2 digital video playback capability. NOTE Refer to the README.TXT file for important information not available when this manual was printed. You will find this file on the CD disc supplied with the board and also in the REALmagic DVD program group after software installation. Item Checklist s s ASUS 740DVD Hardware DVD Daughtercard ASUS 740DVD Software (CD disc) NOTE Throughout this document, references are made to the Windows 95/98 directory or the CD-ROM drive. In general, the Windows directory is called \WINDOWS, but this is not mandatory. You may have named it something else (e.g., \WIN, \WINDOW95). When references are made to the \WINDOWS directory throughout this document, you can replace \WINDOWS with your own Windows directory name, if necessary. This manual also assumes that your CD-ROM drive is drive D:. 6 ASUS 740DVD Supported File Formats Your ASUS 740DVD supports the following MPEG file formats: DVD (e.g., IFO and VOB files), MPG files (MPEG-2/MPEG-1), DAT files (Video CD 1.0/2.0), and VBS and ABS files (MPEG-encoded video only bitstream and audio only bitstream files).. System Requirements s s s s s s s s s Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.1 or later (Version 4.00.950 B with USB Update) or Windows 98 16MB of RAM (32MB recommended) ASUS AGP-V2740 3D Multimedia Accelerator Pentium II computer system 10MB of free hard disk space DVD-ROM drive Sound Blaster 16 or compatible sound card Plug and Play BIOS support Bus mastering IDE controller recommended ASUS 740DVD 7 Installation Hardware Installation The ASUS 740DVD hardware installation assumes that both your ASUS AGP-V2740 and sound system (check the hardware suppliers' documentation) have been properly installed in your computer. ASUS 740DVD Parts EM8220 DVD/MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder Chip VMI-B Connector VMI-A Connector SDRAM ASUS 740DVD Layout 40 2 39 26 13 VMI-B Connector 2 1 1 VMI-A Connector EM8220 Audio/Video Decoder Chip SDRAM 8 ASUS 740DVD Installing Your ASUS 740DVD s s s s s Turn off the power to your computer and to your monitor. Unplug the power cord from the computer. Unplug the VGA monitor cable from your PC. Remove the cover from your computer. (Refer to your PC user's manual for specific instructions.) Locate the VMI-B Connector (40-pin male) and VMI-A Connector (26-pin female) on the ASUS AGP-V2740 3D Multimedia Accelerator. If the AGP-V2740 has already been installed on the system board, refer to your user's manual to locate these connectors. Plug the corresponding connectors on the 740DVD into the AGP-V2740 and push gently and firmly to secure the card for proper connection. ASUS AGP-V2740 ASUS 740DVD (back view) on ASUS AGP-V2740 s s s Make sure that the VGA card is properly seated and installed in the AGP connector. Replace the cover of your PC and reconnect the power cord. Reconnect all cables and replace the cover. ASUS 740DVD 9 Software Installation Windows95/98 The ASUS 740DVD software for Windows 95 and Windows 98 is included on the CD installation disc. s s s Turn on your computer and switch into Windows 95/98. Insert the installation disc into your CD-ROM drive. The ASUS 740DVD Install Shell will appear. If it does not appear, run D:\DISK1\SETUP.EXE. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation process. WARNING! The ASUS 740DVD integrates Contents Scramble System (CSS) capability, allowing end-users to regionalize their DVD-ROM drive or player up to five times. Once the drive has been regionalized for the fifth time, its region code is set and available only for the region for which the drive has been last set. See opposite page for a list of the CSS Regions. s When the setup program is finished installing the necessary software, the Setup Complete dialog box appears. Click Finish to complete the setup. The installation process will copy the applications to the C:\REALmagic folder and create a REALmagic program group containing DVD Station, Readme, REALmagic Configutration, and Uninstall. IMPORTANT Before attempting to play MPEG video, you should have already installed the drivers for the ASUS AGP-V2740. 10 ASUS 740DVD Contents Scramble System (CSS) Regions The world is divided, for CSS purposes, into six regions. A CSS-encoded disc may be encoded for one or more of the regions, but your player or hardware must be identified as one region only. A player or hardware may only play discs that are encoded for that player's region. [See WARNING! on the opposite page] CSS Regions Region 1: The U.S., its territories and Canada Region 2: Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Greenland Region 3: Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia Region 4: Mexico, South America, Australia, New Zealand Region 5: Russia, Eastern Europe, India, most of Africa Region 6: China ASUS 740DVD 11 Using the DVD Station DVD Station is a versatile Windows utility that allows you to play a variety of DVD, Video CD, and CD formats. This section describes how to use DVD Station to play full-length feature films recorded in the DVD and Video CD formats, data CDs containing MPEG files and Audio CDs. DVD Station will automatically detect the format of the disc in your DVD-ROM drive and identify the file type in the Display Panel. DVD Station can also detect MPEG files in your CD-ROM and hard drives. Your DVD-ROM drive must be DVD-compliant to be able to play DVD-Video and DVD-ROM. Check the owner's manual of your DVD-ROM drive to make sure it meets these requirements before attempting to play DVD discs. Starting the DVD Station s s s s Start Windows, if you have not already done so. Insert a DVD disc, a Video CD, or a CD disc containing MPEG files into your DVD drive. Click the Start button on the taskbar, point to Programs and then to REALMAGIC MALIBU, and then click DVD Station. DVD Station appears on the screen. (DVD Station looks best if you set your display properties to 256 or more colors.) 12 ASUS 740DVD s If the Auto-Play feature in DVD Station is enabled, DVD Station will begin playing the disc in the DVD-ROM drive when one is inserted. The Display Panel provides specific information about the current video or audio track, such as its track number, play time, and aspect ratio. A progress bar at the bottom indicates the progression of the clip as it plays. You can click the Progress Bar to jump to a particular part of the track being played. Depending on the type of disc you are playing, additional information may appear. Disc Type Track Number Time Display Aspect Ratio Repeat Mode Progress Bar The Volume Control increases or decreases the audio level. Using your mouse, move the slider up and down to adjust the volume. Click the Mute Sound button to mute the audio. To turn the audio on, click the Mute Sound button again. Mute Sound button slider ASUS 740DVD 13 Standard Buttons Pause and Play button. Click this button to pause play, to start playing the first track on the DVD or CD, or to resume play after pausing. Stop button. Click this button to stop playback. Eject button. Click this button to operate the ejection mechanism (if supported by your DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive). Rewind button. Click this button to play the current track backwards at 2x speed, click again for 8x speed, and click again to resume normal playback. Fast Forward button. Click this button to fast forward the current playing track at 2x speed, click again for 8x speed, and click again to resume normal playback. Previous Track button. Click this button to skip to the previous track on the disc. Next Track button. Click this button to skip to the next track on the disc. Play Mode button. Click this button to select from three play modes: All, Random, and Play List. The Display Panel will show which play mode is currently active. The default play mode is All. To select Play List, you must first create a play list. (See Creating a Play List later in this chapter.) Selecting Random will cause DVD Station to play the tracks in random order. The Random setting does not work with DVD movies. Repeat Mode button. Click this button to toggle between Play Once and Continuous Play modes. Click once to repeat the current chapter, and twice to repeat the title. 14 ASUS 740DVD Custom Buttons Custom Buttons perform additional functions within DVD Station. Clicking the Display button displays the playtime of the current clip, the spoken language, and the name of the file in the upper left-hand corner of the VGA viewing window. Clicking the Counter button again disables this feature. Clicking the Full Screen button or double clicking left button of the mouse on the Video window to toggle between the video window and full screen. Press CTRL+Z to restore the video window from full screen to its previous size. When playing in Full Screen mode, move the mouse to the bottom of the screen to display a mini-DVD Station to control movie playback. The Mini-DVD Interface is similar to the Standard Buttons and allows you to control video playback while you are in Full Screen mode. Clicking the Open File button allows you to open and play MPEG files from your hard disk, DVDROM, or CD-ROM drive. You will see a standard Open Video File dialog window. Clicking the Options Dialog button brings up the DVD Station Options window (see next page). ASUS 740DVD 15 Play List The Play List feature allows you to create a list of your favorite MPEG clips for the DVD Station's Play List mode. In the preceding figure, drive D: is the DVD-ROM drive and drive E: is the CD-ROM drive. Since the DVD/MPEG-2 Playback Card is capable of playing both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 files, you may choose to play MPEG1 and MPEG-2 files from the CD-ROM drive or from your hard disk drive. DVD files will only play from the DVD-ROM or the hard disk drive. The Title List window displays the filenames of MPEG clips that DVD Station was able to locate on the hard disk, DVD-ROM, or CD-ROM drive. The Play List window displays the clips that are currently on the Play List. To create a Play List, follow these steps: s Select the clip's icon that you wish to add to the Play List from the Title List window and drag it into the Play List window. To move all of the clips in the Title List to the Play List, click the Add All button. To clear the Play List, click the Remove All button. 16 ASUS 740DVD s s s To remove a clip from the Play List, click the clip's icon and drag it into the Title List box. To change a clip's playing order, drag and re-position its icon in the Play List box. Click OK when you have finished adding, removing, and/or changing the order of the clips into the Play List. Click the Play Mode button in the main window (see page 14) until the word Play List is highlighted in the Display Panel. All clips included in the Play List will play in the order that you made. NOTE: Play Lists cannot be created for DVD movies. Settings Click the Settings tab to display the DVD Station Settings. This section allows you to choose the various DVD Station settings that you can enable and/or disable. Start Detached ToolTips Displays the DVD Station Control detached from the movie window on startup. Press F2 to toggle this feature. Enables pop-up ToolTips that display the function of each DVD Station button. ASUS 740DVD 17 Keep Aspect Ratio Maintains the movie's correct aspect ratio (either 4:3 or 16:9) when re-sizing a movie window. Prevents distortion of the movie. Press F4 to resize the movie window to the movie's standard (non-scaled) resolution. Always on Top Displays the movie window on top of all other windows. With this feature enabled, other programs will not appear on top of the movie window. AutoPlay Allows you to enable and disable the Windows 95/98 AutoPlay feature on the DVD-ROM drive. DVD Click the DVD tab to display the DVD Station's DVD settings. 18 ASUS 740DVD Rating Control Some DVD movie titles support a voluntary movie rating system. With a rated title, this feature allows you to play an edited version of the movie, with violent and other objectionable scenes removed. For instance, a title may come with R, PG-13, and PG-rated versions of the same movie. When DVD Station is first installed, the password box appears dimmed. To enable this feature, check the Set box and enter a password. Enter a password of your choice into the New box and again in the Confirm box. Click Apply to enable the password. NOTE Make sure the password is something you can remember or record it at a safe place. If you forget the password, you must reinstall DVD Station to enter a new password. When you want to change the rating level, enter the password into the Enter box and them make your selection. IMPORTANT NOTE This feature has no effect on titles that do not support the Parental Lockout feature. Most DVD movie titles do not use this voluntary rating system. You cannot rely upon this feature to prevent your children from viewing objectionable titles. The only way to prevent children from playing such movies is to physically keep those movies out of reach of children. Default Language Most DVD movies support multi-lingual audio. You may select the default language of your choice under the Default Language selection. If the chosen default language is not available on that DVD movie title, DVD Station will use the default language on that particular DVD movie disc, which may differ depending on the origin of the disc. ASUS 740DVD 19 NOTE You must restart the movie after changing the Default Language for it to take effect. Picture Controls Click the More Controls button to toggle the display of more features. More Controls Brightness Contrast Color Saturation Image Capture Segment Play Slow Motion Picture Control sliders The VGA chip controls brightness, contrast, color saturation, and gamma. These features therefore, depend on the type of the VGA chip of your notebook. Image Capture Click the Image Capture button to save a BMP image of a movie frame to disk. Note that, because of copyright restrictions, this feature does not work with DVD Video titles. Segment Play (A-B) This feature lets you loop playback between any two points in a movie. Click this button on the progress bar once during movie playback to set the start point. Click the button a second time to set the end point. The movie will now loop between the two points until you press another button (for example: Rewind or Stop). Slow Motion Play Click this button to play back the movie at half speed. Click the button again to return to normal playback speed. Audio is muted when Slow Motion is selected. 20 ASUS 740DVD